TY  - BOOK
AU  - Foster,Hamar
AU  - Berger,Benjamin L.
AU  - Buck,A.R.
TI  - The Grand Experiment: Law and Legal Culture in British Settler Societies
T2  - Law and Society Series
SN  - 9780774814935
AV  - KD5020 -- .G73 2008eb 
U1  - 349.41 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Vancouver
PB  - University of British Columbia Press
KW  - Law -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History
KW  - Law -- Great Britain -- History
KW  - Indians of North America -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Canada -- History
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Does Law Matter? The New Colonial Legal History -- PART 1: AUTHORITY AT THE BOUNDARIES OF EMPIRE -- 1 Libel and the Colonial Administration of Justice in Upper Canada and New South Wales, c. 1825-30 -- 2 The Limits of Despotic Government at Sea -- 3 One Chief, Two Chiefs, Red Chiefs, Blue Chiefs: Newcomer Perspectives on Indigenous Leadership in Rupert's Land and the North-West Territories -- 4 Rhetoric, Reason, and the Rule of Law in Early Colonial New South Wales -- 5 Sometimes Persuasive Authority: Dominion Case Law and English Judges, 1895-1970 -- PART 2: COURTS AND JUDGES IN THE COLONIES -- 6 Courts, Communities, and Communication: The Nova Scotia Supreme Court on Circuit, 1816-50 -- 7 Fame and Infamy: Two Men of the Law in Colonial New Zealand -- 8 Moving in an "Eccentric Orbit": The Independence of Judge Algernon Sidney Montagu in Van Diemen's Land, 1833-47 -- 9 "Not in Keeping with the Traditions of the Cariboo Courts": Courts and Community Identity in Northeastern British Columbia, 1920-50 -- PART 3: PROPERTY, POLITICS, AND PETITIONS IN COLONIAL LAW -- 10 Starkie's Adventures in North America: The Emergence of Libel Law -- 11 The Law of Dower in New South Wales and the United States: A Study in Comparative Legal History -- 12 Contesting Prohibition and the Constitution in 1850s New Brunswick -- 13 From Humble Prayers to Legal Demands: The Cowichan Petition of 1909 and the British Columbia Indian Land Question -- Afterword: Looking from the Past into the Future -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z
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